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Autodesk acquires Evolver/Avatara/Evolver Pro

Tateru Nino — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:40:53 +0000

Confused about what and who Evolver is? I’ve written about them before.

Recently, the Evolver technology, which offers you products like: Avatara, Evolver, and Evolver Pro, has become a part of Autodesk.

Autodesk serves entertainment and design professionals that are looking for ways to make their 3D projects more realistic by adding a human element in the form of crowd simulation. Evolver technology complements the research we are currently doing in the areas of realistic real-time human crowd simulation.

Current Avatara, Evolver, and Evolver Pro customers will be able to access many of the same services previously available. Additionally, we anticipate that many Pro export services will, for a limited time, be made available for free. Longer-term plans will be communicated as soon as they are available.

Second Life smarter than Gawker Media

Tateru Nino — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:08:36 +0000

Valleywag, an online gossip (and occasionally news) blog operated by Gawker Media – and given to outlandish and sensationalist headlines, rather like the one above – was always fond of calling Second Life a failure, in the past tense; it’s dead, it was a failure, does anyone remember that crazy thing with all those sad people?

Now, just relegated to a simple blog tag, Valleywag has all but given up the ghost, whereas Second Life does rather continue to be ticking along, regardless of its various problems and obstacles.


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Event: Representation of Disability in the Virtual World

Tateru Nino — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:15:56 +0000

Presenter: ZiplockedGoldfish Twig

Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 8:00pm SLT (US Pacific)

Bring your A-game

Tateru Nino — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:28:25 +0000

Journalists. We rely on them for news about business, politics, world and local events, and more. Most of what we know about our world comes to us through a journalist at some point or another.

When it comes to writing about technology, things get shakier, and when it comes to anything to do with Second Life, journalists tend to be a major let-down, as I’ve noted before.

This Christmas was no exception.


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The world is changing

Tateru Nino — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:00:55 +0000

The world is changing. Can you feel it?

A month ago, I didn’t give a hoot about Wikileaks. It didn’t interest me at all. Nor did journalist Assange, one of its founders and operators. I couldn’t have cared less about them. Wikileaks was just one more news publication in an ocean of news publications, all of which periodically ran with stories about this or that leaked document.

And the award for awesome timing goes to…

Tateru Nino — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:25:27 +0000

A brand new book called “A practical guide to using Second Life in Higher Education.”


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Avatar Dancers land on ABC TV

Tateru Nino — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:44:45 +0000

Avatar Dancers land on ABC TV

International Broadcast Premiere screenings of Entanglement Theory

– a ‘mixed reality’ dance film by Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman and Gary Hayes which seamlessly combines real life and Second Life dancing –

on ABC2 (Sunday October 31, 8:25pm 8:20pm) and ABC1 (Sunday November 7, 4:25pm 4:20pm)

Millions of Gaia Online Members to Guest Judge 2010 New York Comic Con Masquerade

Tateru Nino — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:54:27 +0000

Gaia Online users get to proxy-vote at the Comic-Con masquerade live via webcast on 9 October. Cool notion.

FireSabre Consulting offers OpenSim product to educators in place of Teen Second Life

Tateru Nino — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:01:10 +0000

As we crawl (or speed, depending on your temporal perspective) towards the closure date of Teen Second Life, it’s only reasonable that one or more groups would emerge with possible alternatives.


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Cyber-warfare and cyber-waffle

Tateru Nino — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:07:02 +0000

There’s an old saying about Internet experts. How do you tell the ones who are any good? They don’t ever use cyber as a prefix for random words.

Most people who talk about ‘cyber-warfare’ are full of bunk, and most of what you know about computers, networks, computer security and the Internet from television programmes and movies is woefully wrong.

Gaia Online Delivers an Epic New Eco-Adventure with Frontier Skies

Tateru Nino — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:12:41 +0000

Apparently the folks at Atomic PR have their eye on me, because they just sent me a copy of their latest press-release. I actually quite like getting press-releases, since certain companies have been quite… erratic about sending me their releases at all.

Anyway, this is from the Gaia Online folks who don’t take themselves too seriously, which I definitely feel is a beneficial trait.


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McCabe Maxstead on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

Tateru Nino — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:55:40 +0000

It’s Second Life viewer madness lately. With the Imprudence viewer suddenly thrust into the limelight, and suddenly inundated with thousands of new users, Beebe’s going to interview Imprudence developer McCabe Maxstead on her upcoming show.


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Emerald viewer forked

Tateru Nino — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:03:22 +0000

So, some of the old crowd from the Emerald dev team have kicked off a new viewer project, starting with the source code of the old one, after a key Emerald developer dug his heels in and killed the old project.

What’s black and white and green all over?

Tateru Nino — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:13:03 +0000

Your local newspaper is always quick to report on some Internet site or other being a haven for perverts.

I think it’s actually jealousy.

Frameville

Tateru Nino — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:04 +0000

Very little bugs me the way the repackaging of bad news as good news does.


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Virtual Ability Launches Project to Make Second Life Viewer More Accessible

Tateru Nino — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:58:13 +0000

Thought LordGregGreg was going to get out of the third-party viewer biz after parting ways with the Emerald viewer team? Not so, folks.


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D/MARC beta for Second Life behind corporate firewalls

Tateru Nino — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:39:46 +0000

Even without little corporate firewall issues with HTTP textures, corporate and education users still traditionally run afoul of Second Life’s unusual multi-port usage patterns, which can be blocked by default by zealous and sensible network administrators.


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Advertising context failure

Tateru Nino — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:44:40 +0000

I’d pretty much call this a failure of contextual advertising placement.


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Al Andalus Estate leaves Confederation of Democratic Sims

Tateru Nino — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:51:58 +0000

For a change of pace, I’ll publish a press-release, verbatim. I know, that’s a bit unusual for me. We’ll see how that goes.

A media eclipse

Tateru Nino — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:23:40 +0000

As you might or might not be aware Australia has a new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as we come up to the next general election.

Under the Westminster System, you don’t really vote for a government, per se. You vote for representatives, and then the representatives pick and choose who gets to be the government.


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